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One thing that depresses me about this entire field is that there are probably enough data points buried in all of the various Big Pharma databases for AI to co
by natechols 7y ago
One thing that depresses me about this entire field is that there are probably enough data points buried in all of the various Big Pharma databases for AI to come up with some truly novel and useful insights. Even though most of the data will be for drugs that failed, however, there's still zero incentive for the companies to share the data. In general I'm extremely skeptical of claims that central planning will be more efficient than capitalism, but this is one case where the competition seems actively harmful.
- dekhn 7y agoI've worked with big pharma databases. Nearly all of them are inappropriate for the techniques used at large internet companies (deep networks trained to predict user behavior to maximize some objective). Pharma is slowly coming to the understanding that they could use their resources to produce high quality datasets that are amenable to machine learning, but it's a slow process and it always has to fight against the status quo.